Aaron Ramsey: Why Arsenal keep FAILING in the Champions League

The 2-0 win against Monaco last night was not enough to prevent the Gunners being knocked out on away goals following their horror show at the Emirates three weeks earlier when the Ligue 1 side won 3-1.

It was the fifth consecutive year season that Arsene Wenger's side had failed to reach the quarter-finals, having gone out to Barcelona, AC Milan and Bayern Munich (twice) previously.

Against Milan, Arsenal were unable to turn around a 4-0 first leg loss while the two opening legs against Munich ended 3-1 and 2-0 to the German giants.

And Ramsey says he and his teammates must start to learn the lessons of their European exits.

FIRST LEG PROBLEMS: Aaron Ramsey admits Arsenal's first leg performances are costing them in Europe [AFP/GETTY]

“We've got to start learning that we need to keep ourselves in the game in the first leg”

Aaron Ramsey

"It's obviously really disappointing again," he said.

"We seem to always give ourselves a hard task from the first game.

"We came really close - that seems to be the story of the last few years. We've got to start learning that we need to keep ourselves in the game in the first leg.

"We did believe that we could come here and qualify. We had chances and on another day we could have scored three, four or five, but it wasn't to be.

"We can take some positives from [the second leg]. It's not an easy place to come, they've proven that with the results they've had here. They don't concede many but we had chances to score."